“The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.”

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

The law is a horrible business.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism

I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

Most modern comedy is crap.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago

The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read